The oil cooler

Simon from HEL Performance was so kind to provide an oil-cooler kit for the Katana.project
The contents of the kit... two lines with crankcase adapters, cooler and mounting bracket.
The kit unpacked
The cooler is a MOCAL OC5137-8 COOLER 13ROW 235MM -8JIC MALE
More info about the cooler itself;

The pressed plate cooler consists of a variable number of aluminium pressed plates forming oil ways and end tanks, the oil ways contain turbulators which not only break down boundary layer effect in the flow to obtain maximum heat dissipation without undue pressure drop but also because they are brazed to both surfaces of the plates hold them together under pressure.
The oil ways are interspersed with aluminium strip louvered and formed into corrugations to provide airways. The entire unit is brazed together in a salt bath. The design is beautifully simple and efficient and most suitable for mass production, the coolers are available in various heights, two widths but only one (2") front to back measurement. The matrix height is usually referred to in rows, these are the number of oil ways including top and bottom plates which carry oil.





Number of rows: 13
Matrix height: 100mm
Weight: 880g
Capacity: 260ml
The cooler fits perfectly between the two lower fairing wings, though ofcourse it sticks out the bottom a bit.
The bracket that came with the cooler however, did not line up with the holes in the frame.
I suspect the bracket is intended to be used on a GSX-R or Bandit.
I also don't like the idea of the cooler not being supported at the bottom so I will move the top bracket to the bottom and make my own top bracket.
As you can see there's a mounting point on the frame below the cooler. I will bolt a strip onto that and then drill it to match the mounting bracket.

I tried contacting Simon Lane about mis-matched top bracket because I'm sure you'd want to know if you got the correct one if you were to order one for your GSX/Katana, but I'm still waiting for a reply, as well as a reply on the question if it's safe to hang the cooler by the top only.
Anyway it's better to be safe to be sorry so I will continue fabrication of the top bracket.